Improvement in grocers  scoops



0. W. SGHWANENGEL. Grocers Scoop.

No. 197,673. Patented Nov. 21, 187?.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OHARLYS W. SOHWANENGEL, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF THREE- FOURTHS OFHIS RIGHT TO FREDK. A. REQUARTH, HENRY HASSLER, AND CONRAD W. SOHAEFER,OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN GROCERS SCOOPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,673, dated November27, 1877 application filed August 2, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OnARLYs W. SCHWA- NENGEL, of Dayton, in the countyof Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Grocers Scoops; and I do hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention relates to certain improvements in wooden scoops forgrocers and others, whereby great strength is combined with simplicityand cheapness of construction.

My improvement consists in the construction of the scoop, as will beherewith set forth and claimed.

To enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains tomake and use the same, I would thus proceed to describe it, re-

ferring throughout to the accompanying drawing, representing, inperspective, my improved scoop.

A represents the end of the scoop, made of a semicircular piece of wood,of from one-half to three-quarters of an inch in thickness. B is asemi-elliptical piece of hardwood, of about one-eighth or one-quarter ofan inch in thickness, which is steamed and bent up around the edge ofthe end A, with its grain running longitudinally, and is secured theretoby nails or screws.

To render the union of the parts more perfeet I secure a strip of zincor other sheet metal, C, over the top of the piece A, and secure itsbent ends a over the edges of the body securing the end of the bladeupon the endpiece or head A, instead of mortising it in and having aportion of the end piece to project below the under side of the blade, Igreatly improve the construction, for, where a portion of the end pieceprojects below the blade, it is in constant danger of coming in contactwith the rims of barrels or edges of drawers, and is liable to becomebroken.

I am aware that it is not new to make a scoop of wood; but what I claimis- As a new article of manufacture, a wooden scoop with steamed andbent blade B, having its grain running longitudinally, end piece, metalbrace-piece O, and handle D, the parts being connected substantially asand for the purpose described.

Witness my hand this 9th day of July, A. D. 1877.

OHARLYS' W. SGHWANENGEL.

Witnesses WM. RITCHIE, P. H. GUNCKEL.

